Even in The Queen’s Gambit, it’s tempting to move your knight out and go pawn-for-pawn, but the computer analysis (and too ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. DeepMind’s exploits in South Korea have captivated the world this week, as its AlphaGo program has defeated Go ...

Chess has enjoyed a sharp rise in popularity in the 2020s. The spike began during COVID lockdowns and increased when Chess.com created its first PogChamps tournament on Twitch in 2020, which proved ...

The 2021 World Chess Championship ended last week with Magnus Carlen of Norway, the world No. 1, defending his title against challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. It was Carlsen’s fifth victory in ...

The Playful Systems Group and a chess grandmaster analyzed 750,000 chess moves to create DeepView for the Millionaire Chess Open. Watching complex, strategy-based games is difficult unless you ...

Complexity science has changed the way researchers think about the climate, the economy and ecosystems. Is it about to do the same for chess? One of the big ideas of modern science is that small ...

Kazakhstan has rapidly transformed into a global chess powerhouse, with record medal hauls, rising stars, and a new ...

This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. The auditorium in Dubai hosting the 2021 World Chess Championship is reminiscent of the American Museum of Natural History in New York ...